Word: honorers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent issue of the American Magazine has conferred a new and unhackneyed honor upon a citizen of Iowa. He was neither the Best nor the Most in his class at college, nor has he in after life attained unusual success. He is, in brief the most average man in the United States: driving the average car, having the average number in his family, the average social affiliations, and the average views, apparently, on everything...
...There is no place in the world where there is a higher code of honor and ethics than in Wall Street. Every day transactions involving millions of dollars are carried on over the telephone without the suggestion of a signature or a written commitment. Any man or any institution showing the slightest disposition not to play fair is not allowed to play...
Hidden. David Belasco requests the honor of your presence at a play by William Hurlbut.*The principal performers are Beth Merrill and Philip Merivale; and the subject is sex. Mr. Belasco has held U. S. attention for many years, and sex has held it even longer. But both, unfortunately, have lost to some extent their novelty for playgoers. Time was when a Belasco production, correct to the last curl of cigaret smoke, was considered just about the best in town. Latterly patrons have come to realize that Mr. Belasco erects meticulously-perfect sets and shrewdly constructed plots; but that often...
...pushed through the crowds on his way to City Hall, congratulatory hands clapped him on the back, hundreds of people shouted at him from all directions, automobile sirens shrieked in his ears. Mayor J. S. Smith congratulated him. Then for dinner, he was rushed to a banquet given in honor of the two flyers. Called upon for a speech, Mr. Schlee rose, said: "There seems to be a general misconception . . ." and collapsed. Friends attributed the breakdown to nervous strain. Said full-page newspaper advertisements:-"Detroit is proud of the Pride of Detroit and its Intrepid Pilots-Ed Schlee and Billy...
...argued that to honor every visiting band by learning to play one of its tunes and forming the letter on the field would require too much time, let it be pointed out that college songs are no harder to learn than the light, soothing music with which touchdown-thirsty patrons are entertained during dull periods of the game. The Athletic Association has further made things easier by scheduling only seven games that require separate letters, for even the most rabid stickler on form could scarcely object to using the Purdue "P" for the Pennsylvania game. Philologists further point out that...